Oct. 21, 1960
Jim got #837!
Before moving on, we should take note of the election debates of 1960. In their fourth and final debate, Nixon took Kennedy to task for his plans for dealing with Castro. People who listened to the debates on radio said Nixon won, but people who watched it on TV said Kennedy won. Looks like television will be a big part of all future presidential campaigns. One of Nixon's comments will prove eerily prescient: "I think that Senator Kennedy's policies and recommendations for the handling of the Castro regime are probably the most dangerously irresponsible recommendations that he's made during the course of this campaign. In effect, what Senator Kennedy recommends is that the United States government should give help to the exiles and to those within Cuba who oppose the Castro regime - provided they are anti-Batista.... Now I don't know what Senator Kennedy suggests when he says that we should help those who oppose the Castro regime both in Cuba and without. But I do know this, that if we were to follow that recommendation that we would lose all of our friends in Latin America, we would probably be condemned in the United Nations, and we would not accomplish our objective. I know something else. It would be an open invitation for Mr. Khrushchev to come in, to come into Latin America and to engage us in what would be a civil war, and possibly even worse than that."
| posted by John, 10:46 PM
Before moving on, we should take note of the election debates of 1960. In their fourth and final debate, Nixon took Kennedy to task for his plans for dealing with Castro. People who listened to the debates on radio said Nixon won, but people who watched it on TV said Kennedy won. Looks like television will be a big part of all future presidential campaigns. One of Nixon's comments will prove eerily prescient: "I think that Senator Kennedy's policies and recommendations for the handling of the Castro regime are probably the most dangerously irresponsible recommendations that he's made during the course of this campaign. In effect, what Senator Kennedy recommends is that the United States government should give help to the exiles and to those within Cuba who oppose the Castro regime - provided they are anti-Batista.... Now I don't know what Senator Kennedy suggests when he says that we should help those who oppose the Castro regime both in Cuba and without. But I do know this, that if we were to follow that recommendation that we would lose all of our friends in Latin America, we would probably be condemned in the United Nations, and we would not accomplish our objective. I know something else. It would be an open invitation for Mr. Khrushchev to come in, to come into Latin America and to engage us in what would be a civil war, and possibly even worse than that."
| posted by John, 10:46 PM
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